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Episode 22 has revealed many things. The first of them is that Lelouch is able to use Twin Geass without the need of his contacts (He just moves his hand out of habit <_<), Suzaku’s live Geass allows him to change the future, Nana-Chan being alive, Nina being a target of many countries for creating FELIJ, Jeremiah’s return, Lloyd’s and Cécile position (Cécile memories were not altered by the way, as she remembers when she first met Lelouch back at episode 17 of season 1), and the Zero Requiem which involves making the whole world Lelouch and Suzaku’s enemy. I won’t complain about the fast moving plot because as Taniguchi once said the Code Geass was made in mind that it would have a fast moving plot because teenagers wanted that way. Nunnally return was already hinted by many (Kaioshin Sama, Schneizel, Koshimizu ect) including the fact that this is a Sunrise show, so it wasn’t that much of a surprise.
With that out of the way I had three major problems with this episode. The first problem is the abundance of characters. Seriously, why pay money to Clamp to give you awesome designs if you’re not showing them for more than 5 seconds? All what it does is eat away the time of other characters. This is a problem which has lead to both Shirley and Guilford being forgotten and their story lines were wasted (especially Guilford). I addressed how much Taniguchi seems to love CLAMP so much on the mecha thread.
The second problem I had was with how the romance in Code Geass has been progressing. Currently the score is:
LelouchX C.C. =???
LelouchX Kallen =???
See what I mean? You just don’t know what is going on in Lelouch head. Is he even interested in women?
The third and major problem I had with this episode is Gino.
To me, Gino has become dead weight ever since he missed his chance to move into a direction where his character could be developed properly. At first, he seemed like he was going to be Suzaku’s friend, a noble with no real experience in the world, and hates to pick on the weak. But then he seemed to become a cold hearted solder who wears a smile whenever he needs to kill people. After that he seems to devolve a romantic interest in Kallen, yet that plot point gets wasted. After that he gets to fight with Xingke, and in here you’d expect the reference to s-CRY-ed to kick in (I mean COME on, Kazum VS. Ryuhou, with the SAME director) unfortunately, that fight gits no more than a mediocre conclusion and is forgotten easily. At this point in the story, Gino accomplishments is the murder of one named secondary character <_< (Senba, the one with the third eye and horns). Even Urabe who only had one speaking line in season 1 and died during the second episode had more development than Gino after 14 EPISODES. It is at this point that he became just ‘’the guy whose there’’.
During this episode, he starts questioning why should he fight for, as being a Britannian he should join Lelouch, yet I have to question if this mentality would change next episode and we’d end up with him playing Basket Ball, and acting like it is no big deal.
Overall, I enjoyed the episode, yet due to a problem that was left until this point of the story (read Gino) I became slightly annoyed due to that. That and the big revelation that the rank of Knight of Rounds is a bigger plot device than the deaths in My-HiME.
Rating: 7/10
Also a question I would like to ask, where exactly is the Ganymede? Wasn’t it important enough to get a scene in the opening?
*Logs off*
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. If he keeps going like this what Euphy did will be a minor footnote in history.
